This is a memorial for my fourth great grandfather
Revolutionary War as Ensign. Revolutionary War Pension File S-3632 National Archives
Son of John Patton & Susannah Espy
Wife: Elizabeth Tipton
Son: Josiah Patton
********Update May 13, 2011*********
The tombstone for Joseph Patton has been provided by the Veterans Administration and there were funds available to purchase very nice tombstones for Elizabeth, Isaac and Rebecca as well as the unmarried brother of Isaac (George Washington Patton).
********Update January 4, 2011*******
*from Casey Co KY Patton-Patten Reunion*
REPORT ON MONUMENTS from Paul Patton: At the 2010 reunion the announcement was made about purchasing tombstones for our ancestors buried in the Dickenson Cemetery (originally the Patton Cemetery) near Crossville, TN. I was successful in securing a government monument for our Revolutionary War Ancestor, Joseph Patton. Approximately $800 was raised at the reunion and from this I was able to purchase monuments for Joseph's wife, Elizabeth Tipton Patton and for John H.'s parents, Isaac and Rebecca Patton and for one of Isaac's brothers, George Washington Patton who never married. Plans were to erect these monument during the Christmas break from school but weather did not cooperate so I am now looking forward to Spring to complete this project. There were ample funds to cover all expenses, thanks to a very generous mark down by McKinley Monuments of Campbellsville, KY.
Southern Campaigns American Revolution Pension Statements & Rosters
Pension application of Joseph Patten S3632 f36NC
Transcribed by Will Graves rev'd 8/11/09 & 10/23/17
State of Tennessee, Morgan County}
On this 15th day of October 1832, personally appeared before the worshipful Justice of
the Court of Pleas and Quarters sessions for said County now sitting it being a court of record,
Joseph Patten a resident citizen of the County of Morgan aforesaid in the State of Tennessee
aged 70 years agreeable to his record as taken from his father's record and after being sworn
according to Law make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the aforesaid
act of Congress passed 7 June in the year of our Lord 1832. That he entered the service of the
United States in the Revolutionary War in the State of North Carolina, Rowan County under
Captain William Bell, Col. Frank Locke [sic, Francis Locke] and Major White [James White] his
first name not recollected, he is not certain of the dates not recollected but it was in the summer
season of the year and believed to be in the year 1779 and marched from said County and
crossed the Catawba River at Shearl's Ford [sic, Sherrills Ford]. He went a horseback and all the
men that went with him we went on to Ramsowers Mill [sic, Ramsour's Mill]1 and fought the
Tories at said mill and conquered and drove them away and wounded and killed many, and then
we returned home having been in service about ten days and in three or four days thereafter was
called again to fight the Tories and he marched off under Captain William Bell and aforesaid
Col. Locke and Col Davidson [William Lee Davidson] was along that was afterwards General
and we marched to Coalston Creek [sic, Colson's Mill]2 and there had a Battle with the Tories
and conquered them Easy and then returned home having been absent some short time this was
another light horse trip and after staying at home about two weeks was drafted to serve three
months against the British and Tories. The British then lay in Camden. He marched off under
Captain William Heart [William Hart] and Col. Davie [William Richardson Davie], his first
name not remembered and marched on toward Camden and stationed some time at Wahaw
Creek [sic, Waxhaw Creek?] and while at that place Two hundred of us and he was of the
number left the main force and fought the Tories at a place on the Catawba river and defeated
them,3 and he together with the balance of said soldiers returned to their former station at
Waxhaw Creek and rejoined our former troops and then there came word that the British was
1 June 20, 1780. http://www.myrevolutionarywar.com/battles/800620.htm &
http://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/revolution_battle_of_ramseurs_mill.html
2 July 21, 1780. http://gaz.jrshelby.com/colson.htm &
http://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/revolution_colsons_mill.html
3 September 21, 1780 http://www.carolana.com/SC/Revolution/revolution_wahabs_plantation.html
coming on toward Charlotte in Mecklenburg County and we then marched back toward that
place and there remained until Tarleton and his forces came to that place we gave him a fire4 we
that were of the horse and retreated the British remained in Charlotte some time and we stationed
at Rocky river about 24 miles off we were engaged for some time in watching round where the
enemy was stationed and in keeping them from plundering and at one time we took about forty
of the British that were out foraging with their wagons and teams. He was in a skirmish at Col.
Polk's Mill5 the British were guarding said mill we thought it was the Tories until we fired a few
times on them they wounded 7 [could be 17] of our horses and killed one man of ours named
Hugh Gray, we took one of their guards and retreated and then returned to head quarters at
Rocky river and went on to Sallis Bury [sic, Salisbury] and was there verbally discharged for a
three months tour and returned home and in about two or three weeks afterward was called in
great haste to go against the British at the time they crossed at Shearl's ford [sic, Sherrills Ford]
and he was on the same day that the British crossed said river in a skirmish with them at that
place but we had to retreat and went home being in some few days and in sometime there after
he substituted in the place of a certain Daniel Baxter who had been drafted to serve three months
tour he marched off under his former Col. Locke and Capt. Huggins [James Huggins] and
marched on after the British and crossed the Shallow Ford of the Yadkin and marched night and
day for some distance and marched near Hillsborough and joined General Greens [sic, Nathanael
Greene's] army and then marched to fight the British at the revolution battle ground near Haw
river and the British retreated and was finally marched by General Greene across Haw river at
the Reedy fork and was there publicly and verbally discharged and Col. Locke and his men
returned home having served out our times and in about six or eight weeks after he returned
home he himself was again drafted and states that his uncle Robert Patten his father's brother was
employed in carrying on work for the Benefit of the army in fixing cannons, cartridges and in
shoeing horses for the Light horse and in doing so it was necessary to have a good strong hand to
help him and by the arrangement of White this applicant was put to assisting his uncle in Black
Smithing [blacksmithing] for the use of the army this was to stand as his tour for which he was
drafted he accordingly served out a three months servitude engaged at the most hard labor and
after said three months tour was expired he was requested by order of Col. White to continue in
service with an understanding that it should stand as so much time in the way of service in the
army and served on till his uncle's time was out making at least four months after my first three
months for which I had served at said work was expired for while in service he never was
promised to be paid nor never received any pay for only the rations that was then allowed him by
said officer by whom he was employed and applicant states the he must have been in the United
States Service during said War about fourteen months in the aggregate the applicant has no
documentary evidence of his service and knows of no person by whom he can prove his services
he states that he was born in the State of Pennsylvania he does not know the County can just
bearly recollect being moved to North Carolina Rowan County was raised in said County near
Catries [sic, Cathey's?] meeting house and there continued to live until about two years after the
revolutionary war and moved to the State of Kentucky Madison County, staid there some few
years and moved to Montgomery County said state staid there 17 years moved to Cumberland
County said state staid there 16 years moved to Overton County, Tennessee lived there 8 or nine
years moved to Morgan Tennessee has lived ever since.
4 "Battle of Charlotte" September 26, 1780. http://www.myrevolutionarywar.com/battles/800926.htm &
http://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/revolution_charlotte.html
5 October 9, 1780. http://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/revolution_polks_mill.html
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present
and declares his name is not on the pension role of this agency of any state.
S/ Joseph Patten
Sworn to in open court
Attest
S/ John Brown, D.C.
[Maj. Shedrach Stephens and Col. Samuel Scott gave the standard supporting affidavit.]
[p 15]
State of Tennessee Morgan County: On this the 15th day of July 1833 personally appeared
before the Worshipful Justices of the court of pleas and quarter sessions for the County of
Morgan State of Tennessee it being a court of record now sitting Joseph Patten, and after being
duly sworn according to law on his oath deposes and makes this amendment to his original
Declaration, and states, that owing to old age and loss of memory and being no scholar so as to
take notice of dates that he was unable to state precisely what year he first entered the service of
the United States that he did not know at the time of making his original Declaration that it was
material in particular to state the date and merely to give it as an opinion in what year he thought
it was and since on more deliberation he is clearly of opinion that he entered the service the first
time spoken of his original Declaration that was in the year 1780 and he thinks about the first of
June in said year he entered said Service in Rowan County North Carolina under Captain
William Bell and Frank Locke and Major White his first name not recollected and marched as
stated in his original Declaration on horseback and fought the Tories at Ramsour's Mill having
been in service some few days he thinks about 10 days and he then returned home and recruited
about 3 or 4 days, and marched off again under said Captain William Bell and Colonel Locke
and Colonel Davidson his first name not remembered, and marched to Colson's Creek and there
fought the Tories at which time said Colonel Davison was slightly wounded and again returned
home having been out at this trip about 8 or 10 days, and after staying at home some short time
and he thinks about 2 weeks, he was drafted to serve a 3 months Tour against the British and
Tories and marched under Captain William Heart and Colonel Davie his first name not
remembered, this Tour included most of the fall season of the year and he thinks he entered the
service this time near about the last of August, and marched as stated in his original Declaration
towards Camden and stationed some time at Waxhaw Creek and was detached from the main
force and fought the Tories at a place on the Catawba River under my said Captain Hart and
Colonel Davie, and returned back to the main force and went home toward Charlotte in
Mecklenburg County and we was driven away from there by the British under Tarleton we fired
on them and retreated and we went on and stationed at Rocky River and was engaged some time
in watching in keeping the enemy from plundering and we took about forty of the British
prisoners during said tour he was in a skirmish at Colonel Polk's mill as stated in his original
Declaration and returned to Rocky River and finally went to Salisbury and was there verbally
discharged by my said Captain for a 3 months tour as a private light horse soldier we were called
dragoons, the time of quitting the service this last mentioned tour he thinks was some time in
November and still in the year 1780 and in a short time thereafter he was again called in great
haste against the British and marched off under Captain William Bell and my aforesaid Colonel
Locke as a private foot soldier was out some few days was in a skirmish at the cross roads of
Catawba at the widow Torrence's Tavern,6 retreated and went back home perhaps was out about
10 days this time and 2 or 3 days thereafter he substituted in the place of Daniel Baxter who had
been drafted to serve a 3 months tour as a private foot soldier and marched off under Captain
Higgins and my aforesaid Colonel Locke and marched him after the British and crossed the
Shallow Ford of the Yadkin [River] and marched near Hillsborough and joined General Greene's
Army and marched to the revolutionary Battle ground and was there publicly and verbally
discharged, he cannot state precisely what time he was discharged but he thinks it was very early
in the spring of 1781, he then returned home, he states that owing to old age and consequent loss
of memory he cannot state precisely the whole of the previous services of mounted to but
according to the best of his recollection they amounted did not less than seven months.
He states that some 6 or 8 weeks thereafter he was drafted to serve a 3 months tour under
said Captain Bell and White his first name not remembered, and by the order of Major White he
was put to work for the use of the Army at blacksmithing served out said time and was continued
at said labor in toto 7 months, with an understanding that the said latter 4 months of said Labor
should save them from so much service in the Army, this applicant from old age and the great
length of time and being no scholar [cannot] state precisely the periods of his service nor
precisely the intervening time between them, but well recollects his tours in succession one after
another and to have performed the whole of his services beginning in one year and ending in the
ensuing year and believes that it was all done [in] the year[s] 1780 and 1781, he knows his
services ended in the same year of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at York, and he relies on
calculating men of learning for the dates he being wholly illiterate, he hereby respectfully
submits to the war department of war to fairly adjust this his claim and grant him a pension
proportioned to what amount of time the department of War sees he is entitled to, he not being a
Judge of true meaning of the act of Congress in every particular and whatever amount of time
they think him entitled to be granted him a pension proportional, and let the time for which he
may not be entitled be considered as relinquished (if any) that his claim be it settled at 7 or 10 or
14 months be not further delayed, as he is vastly old and infirm and in great need of some help
he positively states that there is no clergyman any place within his vicinity, nor was there any at
the time of arranging his original Declaration there being but one or 2 anywhere within his said
County at a very remote distance from applicant he has no doubt he can prove his character for
veracity and as a soldier of the revolution by Colonel Eldridge Myatt of his present
neighborhood and by his neighbors generally and by David S. Lavender Esquire said County and
by Elijah Lavender the clerk of the County court of his said County and in fact by all his intimate
acquaintance generally.
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court the day and year aforesaid
S/ Thomas S. Lea, Deputy Clerk
S/ Joseph Patton
6 February 1, 1781. http://www.myrevolutionarywar.com/battles/1781s.htm &
http://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/revolution_tarrants_tavern.html
[p 32: veteran applied on March 20, 1846 for a new certificate stating that his old one was worn
out. At this time he was living in Fentress County Tennessee.] [Veteran was pensioned at the rate of $36.38 per annum commencing March 4, 1831 for service as a private for 3 months and 20 days in the cavalry and for 6 months and 11 days in the infantry, all in the North Carolina militia.]
Revolutionary War as Ensign. Revolutionary War Pension File S-3632 National Archives
Son of John Patton & Susannah Espy
Wife: Elizabeth Tipton
Son: Josiah Patton
********Update May 13, 2011*********
The tombstone for Joseph Patton has been provided by the Veterans Administration and there were funds available to purchase very nice tombstones for Elizabeth, Isaac and Rebecca as well as the unmarried brother of Isaac (George Washington Patton).
********Update January 4, 2011*******
*from Casey Co KY Patton-Patten Reunion*
REPORT ON MONUMENTS from Paul Patton: At the 2010 reunion the announcement was made about purchasing tombstones for our ancestors buried in the Dickenson Cemetery (originally the Patton Cemetery) near Crossville, TN. I was successful in securing a government monument for our Revolutionary War Ancestor, Joseph Patton. Approximately $800 was raised at the reunion and from this I was able to purchase monuments for Joseph's wife, Elizabeth Tipton Patton and for John H.'s parents, Isaac and Rebecca Patton and for one of Isaac's brothers, George Washington Patton who never married. Plans were to erect these monument during the Christmas break from school but weather did not cooperate so I am now looking forward to Spring to complete this project. There were ample funds to cover all expenses, thanks to a very generous mark down by McKinley Monuments of Campbellsville, KY.
Southern Campaigns American Revolution Pension Statements & Rosters
Pension application of Joseph Patten S3632 f36NC
Transcribed by Will Graves rev'd 8/11/09 & 10/23/17
State of Tennessee, Morgan County}
On this 15th day of October 1832, personally appeared before the worshipful Justice of
the Court of Pleas and Quarters sessions for said County now sitting it being a court of record,
Joseph Patten a resident citizen of the County of Morgan aforesaid in the State of Tennessee
aged 70 years agreeable to his record as taken from his father's record and after being sworn
according to Law make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the aforesaid
act of Congress passed 7 June in the year of our Lord 1832. That he entered the service of the
United States in the Revolutionary War in the State of North Carolina, Rowan County under
Captain William Bell, Col. Frank Locke [sic, Francis Locke] and Major White [James White] his
first name not recollected, he is not certain of the dates not recollected but it was in the summer
season of the year and believed to be in the year 1779 and marched from said County and
crossed the Catawba River at Shearl's Ford [sic, Sherrills Ford]. He went a horseback and all the
men that went with him we went on to Ramsowers Mill [sic, Ramsour's Mill]1 and fought the
Tories at said mill and conquered and drove them away and wounded and killed many, and then
we returned home having been in service about ten days and in three or four days thereafter was
called again to fight the Tories and he marched off under Captain William Bell and aforesaid
Col. Locke and Col Davidson [William Lee Davidson] was along that was afterwards General
and we marched to Coalston Creek [sic, Colson's Mill]2 and there had a Battle with the Tories
and conquered them Easy and then returned home having been absent some short time this was
another light horse trip and after staying at home about two weeks was drafted to serve three
months against the British and Tories. The British then lay in Camden. He marched off under
Captain William Heart [William Hart] and Col. Davie [William Richardson Davie], his first
name not remembered and marched on toward Camden and stationed some time at Wahaw
Creek [sic, Waxhaw Creek?] and while at that place Two hundred of us and he was of the
number left the main force and fought the Tories at a place on the Catawba river and defeated
them,3 and he together with the balance of said soldiers returned to their former station at
Waxhaw Creek and rejoined our former troops and then there came word that the British was
1 June 20, 1780. http://www.myrevolutionarywar.com/battles/800620.htm &
http://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/revolution_battle_of_ramseurs_mill.html
2 July 21, 1780. http://gaz.jrshelby.com/colson.htm &
http://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/revolution_colsons_mill.html
3 September 21, 1780 http://www.carolana.com/SC/Revolution/revolution_wahabs_plantation.html
coming on toward Charlotte in Mecklenburg County and we then marched back toward that
place and there remained until Tarleton and his forces came to that place we gave him a fire4 we
that were of the horse and retreated the British remained in Charlotte some time and we stationed
at Rocky river about 24 miles off we were engaged for some time in watching round where the
enemy was stationed and in keeping them from plundering and at one time we took about forty
of the British that were out foraging with their wagons and teams. He was in a skirmish at Col.
Polk's Mill5 the British were guarding said mill we thought it was the Tories until we fired a few
times on them they wounded 7 [could be 17] of our horses and killed one man of ours named
Hugh Gray, we took one of their guards and retreated and then returned to head quarters at
Rocky river and went on to Sallis Bury [sic, Salisbury] and was there verbally discharged for a
three months tour and returned home and in about two or three weeks afterward was called in
great haste to go against the British at the time they crossed at Shearl's ford [sic, Sherrills Ford]
and he was on the same day that the British crossed said river in a skirmish with them at that
place but we had to retreat and went home being in some few days and in sometime there after
he substituted in the place of a certain Daniel Baxter who had been drafted to serve three months
tour he marched off under his former Col. Locke and Capt. Huggins [James Huggins] and
marched on after the British and crossed the Shallow Ford of the Yadkin and marched night and
day for some distance and marched near Hillsborough and joined General Greens [sic, Nathanael
Greene's] army and then marched to fight the British at the revolution battle ground near Haw
river and the British retreated and was finally marched by General Greene across Haw river at
the Reedy fork and was there publicly and verbally discharged and Col. Locke and his men
returned home having served out our times and in about six or eight weeks after he returned
home he himself was again drafted and states that his uncle Robert Patten his father's brother was
employed in carrying on work for the Benefit of the army in fixing cannons, cartridges and in
shoeing horses for the Light horse and in doing so it was necessary to have a good strong hand to
help him and by the arrangement of White this applicant was put to assisting his uncle in Black
Smithing [blacksmithing] for the use of the army this was to stand as his tour for which he was
drafted he accordingly served out a three months servitude engaged at the most hard labor and
after said three months tour was expired he was requested by order of Col. White to continue in
service with an understanding that it should stand as so much time in the way of service in the
army and served on till his uncle's time was out making at least four months after my first three
months for which I had served at said work was expired for while in service he never was
promised to be paid nor never received any pay for only the rations that was then allowed him by
said officer by whom he was employed and applicant states the he must have been in the United
States Service during said War about fourteen months in the aggregate the applicant has no
documentary evidence of his service and knows of no person by whom he can prove his services
he states that he was born in the State of Pennsylvania he does not know the County can just
bearly recollect being moved to North Carolina Rowan County was raised in said County near
Catries [sic, Cathey's?] meeting house and there continued to live until about two years after the
revolutionary war and moved to the State of Kentucky Madison County, staid there some few
years and moved to Montgomery County said state staid there 17 years moved to Cumberland
County said state staid there 16 years moved to Overton County, Tennessee lived there 8 or nine
years moved to Morgan Tennessee has lived ever since.
4 "Battle of Charlotte" September 26, 1780. http://www.myrevolutionarywar.com/battles/800926.htm &
http://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/revolution_charlotte.html
5 October 9, 1780. http://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/revolution_polks_mill.html
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present
and declares his name is not on the pension role of this agency of any state.
S/ Joseph Patten
Sworn to in open court
Attest
S/ John Brown, D.C.
[Maj. Shedrach Stephens and Col. Samuel Scott gave the standard supporting affidavit.]
[p 15]
State of Tennessee Morgan County: On this the 15th day of July 1833 personally appeared
before the Worshipful Justices of the court of pleas and quarter sessions for the County of
Morgan State of Tennessee it being a court of record now sitting Joseph Patten, and after being
duly sworn according to law on his oath deposes and makes this amendment to his original
Declaration, and states, that owing to old age and loss of memory and being no scholar so as to
take notice of dates that he was unable to state precisely what year he first entered the service of
the United States that he did not know at the time of making his original Declaration that it was
material in particular to state the date and merely to give it as an opinion in what year he thought
it was and since on more deliberation he is clearly of opinion that he entered the service the first
time spoken of his original Declaration that was in the year 1780 and he thinks about the first of
June in said year he entered said Service in Rowan County North Carolina under Captain
William Bell and Frank Locke and Major White his first name not recollected and marched as
stated in his original Declaration on horseback and fought the Tories at Ramsour's Mill having
been in service some few days he thinks about 10 days and he then returned home and recruited
about 3 or 4 days, and marched off again under said Captain William Bell and Colonel Locke
and Colonel Davidson his first name not remembered, and marched to Colson's Creek and there
fought the Tories at which time said Colonel Davison was slightly wounded and again returned
home having been out at this trip about 8 or 10 days, and after staying at home some short time
and he thinks about 2 weeks, he was drafted to serve a 3 months Tour against the British and
Tories and marched under Captain William Heart and Colonel Davie his first name not
remembered, this Tour included most of the fall season of the year and he thinks he entered the
service this time near about the last of August, and marched as stated in his original Declaration
towards Camden and stationed some time at Waxhaw Creek and was detached from the main
force and fought the Tories at a place on the Catawba River under my said Captain Hart and
Colonel Davie, and returned back to the main force and went home toward Charlotte in
Mecklenburg County and we was driven away from there by the British under Tarleton we fired
on them and retreated and we went on and stationed at Rocky River and was engaged some time
in watching in keeping the enemy from plundering and we took about forty of the British
prisoners during said tour he was in a skirmish at Colonel Polk's mill as stated in his original
Declaration and returned to Rocky River and finally went to Salisbury and was there verbally
discharged by my said Captain for a 3 months tour as a private light horse soldier we were called
dragoons, the time of quitting the service this last mentioned tour he thinks was some time in
November and still in the year 1780 and in a short time thereafter he was again called in great
haste against the British and marched off under Captain William Bell and my aforesaid Colonel
Locke as a private foot soldier was out some few days was in a skirmish at the cross roads of
Catawba at the widow Torrence's Tavern,6 retreated and went back home perhaps was out about
10 days this time and 2 or 3 days thereafter he substituted in the place of Daniel Baxter who had
been drafted to serve a 3 months tour as a private foot soldier and marched off under Captain
Higgins and my aforesaid Colonel Locke and marched him after the British and crossed the
Shallow Ford of the Yadkin [River] and marched near Hillsborough and joined General Greene's
Army and marched to the revolutionary Battle ground and was there publicly and verbally
discharged, he cannot state precisely what time he was discharged but he thinks it was very early
in the spring of 1781, he then returned home, he states that owing to old age and consequent loss
of memory he cannot state precisely the whole of the previous services of mounted to but
according to the best of his recollection they amounted did not less than seven months.
He states that some 6 or 8 weeks thereafter he was drafted to serve a 3 months tour under
said Captain Bell and White his first name not remembered, and by the order of Major White he
was put to work for the use of the Army at blacksmithing served out said time and was continued
at said labor in toto 7 months, with an understanding that the said latter 4 months of said Labor
should save them from so much service in the Army, this applicant from old age and the great
length of time and being no scholar [cannot] state precisely the periods of his service nor
precisely the intervening time between them, but well recollects his tours in succession one after
another and to have performed the whole of his services beginning in one year and ending in the
ensuing year and believes that it was all done [in] the year[s] 1780 and 1781, he knows his
services ended in the same year of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at York, and he relies on
calculating men of learning for the dates he being wholly illiterate, he hereby respectfully
submits to the war department of war to fairly adjust this his claim and grant him a pension
proportioned to what amount of time the department of War sees he is entitled to, he not being a
Judge of true meaning of the act of Congress in every particular and whatever amount of time
they think him entitled to be granted him a pension proportional, and let the time for which he
may not be entitled be considered as relinquished (if any) that his claim be it settled at 7 or 10 or
14 months be not further delayed, as he is vastly old and infirm and in great need of some help
he positively states that there is no clergyman any place within his vicinity, nor was there any at
the time of arranging his original Declaration there being but one or 2 anywhere within his said
County at a very remote distance from applicant he has no doubt he can prove his character for
veracity and as a soldier of the revolution by Colonel Eldridge Myatt of his present
neighborhood and by his neighbors generally and by David S. Lavender Esquire said County and
by Elijah Lavender the clerk of the County court of his said County and in fact by all his intimate
acquaintance generally.
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court the day and year aforesaid
S/ Thomas S. Lea, Deputy Clerk
S/ Joseph Patton
6 February 1, 1781. http://www.myrevolutionarywar.com/battles/1781s.htm &
http://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/revolution_tarrants_tavern.html
[p 32: veteran applied on March 20, 1846 for a new certificate stating that his old one was worn
out. At this time he was living in Fentress County Tennessee.] [Veteran was pensioned at the rate of $36.38 per annum commencing March 4, 1831 for service as a private for 3 months and 20 days in the cavalry and for 6 months and 11 days in the infantry, all in the North Carolina militia.]
This is a memorial for my fourth great grandfather
Revolutionary War as Ensign. Revolutionary War Pension File S-3632 National Archives
Son of John Patton & Susannah Espy
Wife: Elizabeth Tipton
Son: Josiah Patton
********Update May 13, 2011*********
The tombstone for Joseph Patton has been provided by the Veterans Administration and there were funds available to purchase very nice tombstones for Elizabeth, Isaac and Rebecca as well as the unmarried brother of Isaac (George Washington Patton).
********Update January 4, 2011*******
*from Casey Co KY Patton-Patten Reunion*
REPORT ON MONUMENTS from Paul Patton: At the 2010 reunion the announcement was made about purchasing tombstones for our ancestors buried in the Dickenson Cemetery (originally the Patton Cemetery) near Crossville, TN. I was successful in securing a government monument for our Revolutionary War Ancestor, Joseph Patton. Approximately $800 was raised at the reunion and from this I was able to purchase monuments for Joseph's wife, Elizabeth Tipton Patton and for John H.'s parents, Isaac and Rebecca Patton and for one of Isaac's brothers, George Washington Patton who never married. Plans were to erect these monument during the Christmas break from school but weather did not cooperate so I am now looking forward to Spring to complete this project. There were ample funds to cover all expenses, thanks to a very generous mark down by McKinley Monuments of Campbellsville, KY.
Southern Campaigns American Revolution Pension Statements & Rosters
Pension application of Joseph Patten S3632 f36NC
Transcribed by Will Graves rev'd 8/11/09 & 10/23/17
State of Tennessee, Morgan County}
On this 15th day of October 1832, personally appeared before the worshipful Justice of
the Court of Pleas and Quarters sessions for said County now sitting it being a court of record,
Joseph Patten a resident citizen of the County of Morgan aforesaid in the State of Tennessee
aged 70 years agreeable to his record as taken from his father's record and after being sworn
according to Law make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the aforesaid
act of Congress passed 7 June in the year of our Lord 1832. That he entered the service of the
United States in the Revolutionary War in the State of North Carolina, Rowan County under
Captain William Bell, Col. Frank Locke [sic, Francis Locke] and Major White [James White] his
first name not recollected, he is not certain of the dates not recollected but it was in the summer
season of the year and believed to be in the year 1779 and marched from said County and
crossed the Catawba River at Shearl's Ford [sic, Sherrills Ford]. He went a horseback and all the
men that went with him we went on to Ramsowers Mill [sic, Ramsour's Mill]1 and fought the
Tories at said mill and conquered and drove them away and wounded and killed many, and then
we returned home having been in service about ten days and in three or four days thereafter was
called again to fight the Tories and he marched off under Captain William Bell and aforesaid
Col. Locke and Col Davidson [William Lee Davidson] was along that was afterwards General
and we marched to Coalston Creek [sic, Colson's Mill]2 and there had a Battle with the Tories
and conquered them Easy and then returned home having been absent some short time this was
another light horse trip and after staying at home about two weeks was drafted to serve three
months against the British and Tories. The British then lay in Camden. He marched off under
Captain William Heart [William Hart] and Col. Davie [William Richardson Davie], his first
name not remembered and marched on toward Camden and stationed some time at Wahaw
Creek [sic, Waxhaw Creek?] and while at that place Two hundred of us and he was of the
number left the main force and fought the Tories at a place on the Catawba river and defeated
them,3 and he together with the balance of said soldiers returned to their former station at
Waxhaw Creek and rejoined our former troops and then there came word that the British was
1 June 20, 1780. http://www.myrevolutionarywar.com/battles/800620.htm &
http://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/revolution_battle_of_ramseurs_mill.html
2 July 21, 1780. http://gaz.jrshelby.com/colson.htm &
http://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/revolution_colsons_mill.html
3 September 21, 1780 http://www.carolana.com/SC/Revolution/revolution_wahabs_plantation.html
coming on toward Charlotte in Mecklenburg County and we then marched back toward that
place and there remained until Tarleton and his forces came to that place we gave him a fire4 we
that were of the horse and retreated the British remained in Charlotte some time and we stationed
at Rocky river about 24 miles off we were engaged for some time in watching round where the
enemy was stationed and in keeping them from plundering and at one time we took about forty
of the British that were out foraging with their wagons and teams. He was in a skirmish at Col.
Polk's Mill5 the British were guarding said mill we thought it was the Tories until we fired a few
times on them they wounded 7 [could be 17] of our horses and killed one man of ours named
Hugh Gray, we took one of their guards and retreated and then returned to head quarters at
Rocky river and went on to Sallis Bury [sic, Salisbury] and was there verbally discharged for a
three months tour and returned home and in about two or three weeks afterward was called in
great haste to go against the British at the time they crossed at Shearl's ford [sic, Sherrills Ford]
and he was on the same day that the British crossed said river in a skirmish with them at that
place but we had to retreat and went home being in some few days and in sometime there after
he substituted in the place of a certain Daniel Baxter who had been drafted to serve three months
tour he marched off under his former Col. Locke and Capt. Huggins [James Huggins] and
marched on after the British and crossed the Shallow Ford of the Yadkin and marched night and
day for some distance and marched near Hillsborough and joined General Greens [sic, Nathanael
Greene's] army and then marched to fight the British at the revolution battle ground near Haw
river and the British retreated and was finally marched by General Greene across Haw river at
the Reedy fork and was there publicly and verbally discharged and Col. Locke and his men
returned home having served out our times and in about six or eight weeks after he returned
home he himself was again drafted and states that his uncle Robert Patten his father's brother was
employed in carrying on work for the Benefit of the army in fixing cannons, cartridges and in
shoeing horses for the Light horse and in doing so it was necessary to have a good strong hand to
help him and by the arrangement of White this applicant was put to assisting his uncle in Black
Smithing [blacksmithing] for the use of the army this was to stand as his tour for which he was
drafted he accordingly served out a three months servitude engaged at the most hard labor and
after said three months tour was expired he was requested by order of Col. White to continue in
service with an understanding that it should stand as so much time in the way of service in the
army and served on till his uncle's time was out making at least four months after my first three
months for which I had served at said work was expired for while in service he never was
promised to be paid nor never received any pay for only the rations that was then allowed him by
said officer by whom he was employed and applicant states the he must have been in the United
States Service during said War about fourteen months in the aggregate the applicant has no
documentary evidence of his service and knows of no person by whom he can prove his services
he states that he was born in the State of Pennsylvania he does not know the County can just
bearly recollect being moved to North Carolina Rowan County was raised in said County near
Catries [sic, Cathey's?] meeting house and there continued to live until about two years after the
revolutionary war and moved to the State of Kentucky Madison County, staid there some few
years and moved to Montgomery County said state staid there 17 years moved to Cumberland
County said state staid there 16 years moved to Overton County, Tennessee lived there 8 or nine
years moved to Morgan Tennessee has lived ever since.
4 "Battle of Charlotte" September 26, 1780. http://www.myrevolutionarywar.com/battles/800926.htm &
http://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/revolution_charlotte.html
5 October 9, 1780. http://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/revolution_polks_mill.html
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present
and declares his name is not on the pension role of this agency of any state.
S/ Joseph Patten
Sworn to in open court
Attest
S/ John Brown, D.C.
[Maj. Shedrach Stephens and Col. Samuel Scott gave the standard supporting affidavit.]
[p 15]
State of Tennessee Morgan County: On this the 15th day of July 1833 personally appeared
before the Worshipful Justices of the court of pleas and quarter sessions for the County of
Morgan State of Tennessee it being a court of record now sitting Joseph Patten, and after being
duly sworn according to law on his oath deposes and makes this amendment to his original
Declaration, and states, that owing to old age and loss of memory and being no scholar so as to
take notice of dates that he was unable to state precisely what year he first entered the service of
the United States that he did not know at the time of making his original Declaration that it was
material in particular to state the date and merely to give it as an opinion in what year he thought
it was and since on more deliberation he is clearly of opinion that he entered the service the first
time spoken of his original Declaration that was in the year 1780 and he thinks about the first of
June in said year he entered said Service in Rowan County North Carolina under Captain
William Bell and Frank Locke and Major White his first name not recollected and marched as
stated in his original Declaration on horseback and fought the Tories at Ramsour's Mill having
been in service some few days he thinks about 10 days and he then returned home and recruited
about 3 or 4 days, and marched off again under said Captain William Bell and Colonel Locke
and Colonel Davidson his first name not remembered, and marched to Colson's Creek and there
fought the Tories at which time said Colonel Davison was slightly wounded and again returned
home having been out at this trip about 8 or 10 days, and after staying at home some short time
and he thinks about 2 weeks, he was drafted to serve a 3 months Tour against the British and
Tories and marched under Captain William Heart and Colonel Davie his first name not
remembered, this Tour included most of the fall season of the year and he thinks he entered the
service this time near about the last of August, and marched as stated in his original Declaration
towards Camden and stationed some time at Waxhaw Creek and was detached from the main
force and fought the Tories at a place on the Catawba River under my said Captain Hart and
Colonel Davie, and returned back to the main force and went home toward Charlotte in
Mecklenburg County and we was driven away from there by the British under Tarleton we fired
on them and retreated and we went on and stationed at Rocky River and was engaged some time
in watching in keeping the enemy from plundering and we took about forty of the British
prisoners during said tour he was in a skirmish at Colonel Polk's mill as stated in his original
Declaration and returned to Rocky River and finally went to Salisbury and was there verbally
discharged by my said Captain for a 3 months tour as a private light horse soldier we were called
dragoons, the time of quitting the service this last mentioned tour he thinks was some time in
November and still in the year 1780 and in a short time thereafter he was again called in great
haste against the British and marched off under Captain William Bell and my aforesaid Colonel
Locke as a private foot soldier was out some few days was in a skirmish at the cross roads of
Catawba at the widow Torrence's Tavern,6 retreated and went back home perhaps was out about
10 days this time and 2 or 3 days thereafter he substituted in the place of Daniel Baxter who had
been drafted to serve a 3 months tour as a private foot soldier and marched off under Captain
Higgins and my aforesaid Colonel Locke and marched him after the British and crossed the
Shallow Ford of the Yadkin [River] and marched near Hillsborough and joined General Greene's
Army and marched to the revolutionary Battle ground and was there publicly and verbally
discharged, he cannot state precisely what time he was discharged but he thinks it was very early
in the spring of 1781, he then returned home, he states that owing to old age and consequent loss
of memory he cannot state precisely the whole of the previous services of mounted to but
according to the best of his recollection they amounted did not less than seven months.
He states that some 6 or 8 weeks thereafter he was drafted to serve a 3 months tour under
said Captain Bell and White his first name not remembered, and by the order of Major White he
was put to work for the use of the Army at blacksmithing served out said time and was continued
at said labor in toto 7 months, with an understanding that the said latter 4 months of said Labor
should save them from so much service in the Army, this applicant from old age and the great
length of time and being no scholar [cannot] state precisely the periods of his service nor
precisely the intervening time between them, but well recollects his tours in succession one after
another and to have performed the whole of his services beginning in one year and ending in the
ensuing year and believes that it was all done [in] the year[s] 1780 and 1781, he knows his
services ended in the same year of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at York, and he relies on
calculating men of learning for the dates he being wholly illiterate, he hereby respectfully
submits to the war department of war to fairly adjust this his claim and grant him a pension
proportioned to what amount of time the department of War sees he is entitled to, he not being a
Judge of true meaning of the act of Congress in every particular and whatever amount of time
they think him entitled to be granted him a pension proportional, and let the time for which he
may not be entitled be considered as relinquished (if any) that his claim be it settled at 7 or 10 or
14 months be not further delayed, as he is vastly old and infirm and in great need of some help
he positively states that there is no clergyman any place within his vicinity, nor was there any at
the time of arranging his original Declaration there being but one or 2 anywhere within his said
County at a very remote distance from applicant he has no doubt he can prove his character for
veracity and as a soldier of the revolution by Colonel Eldridge Myatt of his present
neighborhood and by his neighbors generally and by David S. Lavender Esquire said County and
by Elijah Lavender the clerk of the County court of his said County and in fact by all his intimate
acquaintance generally.
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court the day and year aforesaid
S/ Thomas S. Lea, Deputy Clerk
S/ Joseph Patton
6 February 1, 1781. http://www.myrevolutionarywar.com/battles/1781s.htm &
http://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/revolution_tarrants_tavern.html
[p 32: veteran applied on March 20, 1846 for a new certificate stating that his old one was worn
out. At this time he was living in Fentress County Tennessee.] [Veteran was pensioned at the rate of $36.38 per annum commencing March 4, 1831 for service as a private for 3 months and 20 days in the cavalry and for 6 months and 11 days in the infantry, all in the North Carolina militia.]
Revolutionary War as Ensign. Revolutionary War Pension File S-3632 National Archives
Son of John Patton & Susannah Espy
Wife: Elizabeth Tipton
Son: Josiah Patton
********Update May 13, 2011*********
The tombstone for Joseph Patton has been provided by the Veterans Administration and there were funds available to purchase very nice tombstones for Elizabeth, Isaac and Rebecca as well as the unmarried brother of Isaac (George Washington Patton).
********Update January 4, 2011*******
*from Casey Co KY Patton-Patten Reunion*
REPORT ON MONUMENTS from Paul Patton: At the 2010 reunion the announcement was made about purchasing tombstones for our ancestors buried in the Dickenson Cemetery (originally the Patton Cemetery) near Crossville, TN. I was successful in securing a government monument for our Revolutionary War Ancestor, Joseph Patton. Approximately $800 was raised at the reunion and from this I was able to purchase monuments for Joseph's wife, Elizabeth Tipton Patton and for John H.'s parents, Isaac and Rebecca Patton and for one of Isaac's brothers, George Washington Patton who never married. Plans were to erect these monument during the Christmas break from school but weather did not cooperate so I am now looking forward to Spring to complete this project. There were ample funds to cover all expenses, thanks to a very generous mark down by McKinley Monuments of Campbellsville, KY.
Southern Campaigns American Revolution Pension Statements & Rosters
Pension application of Joseph Patten S3632 f36NC
Transcribed by Will Graves rev'd 8/11/09 & 10/23/17
State of Tennessee, Morgan County}
On this 15th day of October 1832, personally appeared before the worshipful Justice of
the Court of Pleas and Quarters sessions for said County now sitting it being a court of record,
Joseph Patten a resident citizen of the County of Morgan aforesaid in the State of Tennessee
aged 70 years agreeable to his record as taken from his father's record and after being sworn
according to Law make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the aforesaid
act of Congress passed 7 June in the year of our Lord 1832. That he entered the service of the
United States in the Revolutionary War in the State of North Carolina, Rowan County under
Captain William Bell, Col. Frank Locke [sic, Francis Locke] and Major White [James White] his
first name not recollected, he is not certain of the dates not recollected but it was in the summer
season of the year and believed to be in the year 1779 and marched from said County and
crossed the Catawba River at Shearl's Ford [sic, Sherrills Ford]. He went a horseback and all the
men that went with him we went on to Ramsowers Mill [sic, Ramsour's Mill]1 and fought the
Tories at said mill and conquered and drove them away and wounded and killed many, and then
we returned home having been in service about ten days and in three or four days thereafter was
called again to fight the Tories and he marched off under Captain William Bell and aforesaid
Col. Locke and Col Davidson [William Lee Davidson] was along that was afterwards General
and we marched to Coalston Creek [sic, Colson's Mill]2 and there had a Battle with the Tories
and conquered them Easy and then returned home having been absent some short time this was
another light horse trip and after staying at home about two weeks was drafted to serve three
months against the British and Tories. The British then lay in Camden. He marched off under
Captain William Heart [William Hart] and Col. Davie [William Richardson Davie], his first
name not remembered and marched on toward Camden and stationed some time at Wahaw
Creek [sic, Waxhaw Creek?] and while at that place Two hundred of us and he was of the
number left the main force and fought the Tories at a place on the Catawba river and defeated
them,3 and he together with the balance of said soldiers returned to their former station at
Waxhaw Creek and rejoined our former troops and then there came word that the British was
1 June 20, 1780. http://www.myrevolutionarywar.com/battles/800620.htm &
http://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/revolution_battle_of_ramseurs_mill.html
2 July 21, 1780. http://gaz.jrshelby.com/colson.htm &
http://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/revolution_colsons_mill.html
3 September 21, 1780 http://www.carolana.com/SC/Revolution/revolution_wahabs_plantation.html
coming on toward Charlotte in Mecklenburg County and we then marched back toward that
place and there remained until Tarleton and his forces came to that place we gave him a fire4 we
that were of the horse and retreated the British remained in Charlotte some time and we stationed
at Rocky river about 24 miles off we were engaged for some time in watching round where the
enemy was stationed and in keeping them from plundering and at one time we took about forty
of the British that were out foraging with their wagons and teams. He was in a skirmish at Col.
Polk's Mill5 the British were guarding said mill we thought it was the Tories until we fired a few
times on them they wounded 7 [could be 17] of our horses and killed one man of ours named
Hugh Gray, we took one of their guards and retreated and then returned to head quarters at
Rocky river and went on to Sallis Bury [sic, Salisbury] and was there verbally discharged for a
three months tour and returned home and in about two or three weeks afterward was called in
great haste to go against the British at the time they crossed at Shearl's ford [sic, Sherrills Ford]
and he was on the same day that the British crossed said river in a skirmish with them at that
place but we had to retreat and went home being in some few days and in sometime there after
he substituted in the place of a certain Daniel Baxter who had been drafted to serve three months
tour he marched off under his former Col. Locke and Capt. Huggins [James Huggins] and
marched on after the British and crossed the Shallow Ford of the Yadkin and marched night and
day for some distance and marched near Hillsborough and joined General Greens [sic, Nathanael
Greene's] army and then marched to fight the British at the revolution battle ground near Haw
river and the British retreated and was finally marched by General Greene across Haw river at
the Reedy fork and was there publicly and verbally discharged and Col. Locke and his men
returned home having served out our times and in about six or eight weeks after he returned
home he himself was again drafted and states that his uncle Robert Patten his father's brother was
employed in carrying on work for the Benefit of the army in fixing cannons, cartridges and in
shoeing horses for the Light horse and in doing so it was necessary to have a good strong hand to
help him and by the arrangement of White this applicant was put to assisting his uncle in Black
Smithing [blacksmithing] for the use of the army this was to stand as his tour for which he was
drafted he accordingly served out a three months servitude engaged at the most hard labor and
after said three months tour was expired he was requested by order of Col. White to continue in
service with an understanding that it should stand as so much time in the way of service in the
army and served on till his uncle's time was out making at least four months after my first three
months for which I had served at said work was expired for while in service he never was
promised to be paid nor never received any pay for only the rations that was then allowed him by
said officer by whom he was employed and applicant states the he must have been in the United
States Service during said War about fourteen months in the aggregate the applicant has no
documentary evidence of his service and knows of no person by whom he can prove his services
he states that he was born in the State of Pennsylvania he does not know the County can just
bearly recollect being moved to North Carolina Rowan County was raised in said County near
Catries [sic, Cathey's?] meeting house and there continued to live until about two years after the
revolutionary war and moved to the State of Kentucky Madison County, staid there some few
years and moved to Montgomery County said state staid there 17 years moved to Cumberland
County said state staid there 16 years moved to Overton County, Tennessee lived there 8 or nine
years moved to Morgan Tennessee has lived ever since.
4 "Battle of Charlotte" September 26, 1780. http://www.myrevolutionarywar.com/battles/800926.htm &
http://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/revolution_charlotte.html
5 October 9, 1780. http://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/revolution_polks_mill.html
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present
and declares his name is not on the pension role of this agency of any state.
S/ Joseph Patten
Sworn to in open court
Attest
S/ John Brown, D.C.
[Maj. Shedrach Stephens and Col. Samuel Scott gave the standard supporting affidavit.]
[p 15]
State of Tennessee Morgan County: On this the 15th day of July 1833 personally appeared
before the Worshipful Justices of the court of pleas and quarter sessions for the County of
Morgan State of Tennessee it being a court of record now sitting Joseph Patten, and after being
duly sworn according to law on his oath deposes and makes this amendment to his original
Declaration, and states, that owing to old age and loss of memory and being no scholar so as to
take notice of dates that he was unable to state precisely what year he first entered the service of
the United States that he did not know at the time of making his original Declaration that it was
material in particular to state the date and merely to give it as an opinion in what year he thought
it was and since on more deliberation he is clearly of opinion that he entered the service the first
time spoken of his original Declaration that was in the year 1780 and he thinks about the first of
June in said year he entered said Service in Rowan County North Carolina under Captain
William Bell and Frank Locke and Major White his first name not recollected and marched as
stated in his original Declaration on horseback and fought the Tories at Ramsour's Mill having
been in service some few days he thinks about 10 days and he then returned home and recruited
about 3 or 4 days, and marched off again under said Captain William Bell and Colonel Locke
and Colonel Davidson his first name not remembered, and marched to Colson's Creek and there
fought the Tories at which time said Colonel Davison was slightly wounded and again returned
home having been out at this trip about 8 or 10 days, and after staying at home some short time
and he thinks about 2 weeks, he was drafted to serve a 3 months Tour against the British and
Tories and marched under Captain William Heart and Colonel Davie his first name not
remembered, this Tour included most of the fall season of the year and he thinks he entered the
service this time near about the last of August, and marched as stated in his original Declaration
towards Camden and stationed some time at Waxhaw Creek and was detached from the main
force and fought the Tories at a place on the Catawba River under my said Captain Hart and
Colonel Davie, and returned back to the main force and went home toward Charlotte in
Mecklenburg County and we was driven away from there by the British under Tarleton we fired
on them and retreated and we went on and stationed at Rocky River and was engaged some time
in watching in keeping the enemy from plundering and we took about forty of the British
prisoners during said tour he was in a skirmish at Colonel Polk's mill as stated in his original
Declaration and returned to Rocky River and finally went to Salisbury and was there verbally
discharged by my said Captain for a 3 months tour as a private light horse soldier we were called
dragoons, the time of quitting the service this last mentioned tour he thinks was some time in
November and still in the year 1780 and in a short time thereafter he was again called in great
haste against the British and marched off under Captain William Bell and my aforesaid Colonel
Locke as a private foot soldier was out some few days was in a skirmish at the cross roads of
Catawba at the widow Torrence's Tavern,6 retreated and went back home perhaps was out about
10 days this time and 2 or 3 days thereafter he substituted in the place of Daniel Baxter who had
been drafted to serve a 3 months tour as a private foot soldier and marched off under Captain
Higgins and my aforesaid Colonel Locke and marched him after the British and crossed the
Shallow Ford of the Yadkin [River] and marched near Hillsborough and joined General Greene's
Army and marched to the revolutionary Battle ground and was there publicly and verbally
discharged, he cannot state precisely what time he was discharged but he thinks it was very early
in the spring of 1781, he then returned home, he states that owing to old age and consequent loss
of memory he cannot state precisely the whole of the previous services of mounted to but
according to the best of his recollection they amounted did not less than seven months.
He states that some 6 or 8 weeks thereafter he was drafted to serve a 3 months tour under
said Captain Bell and White his first name not remembered, and by the order of Major White he
was put to work for the use of the Army at blacksmithing served out said time and was continued
at said labor in toto 7 months, with an understanding that the said latter 4 months of said Labor
should save them from so much service in the Army, this applicant from old age and the great
length of time and being no scholar [cannot] state precisely the periods of his service nor
precisely the intervening time between them, but well recollects his tours in succession one after
another and to have performed the whole of his services beginning in one year and ending in the
ensuing year and believes that it was all done [in] the year[s] 1780 and 1781, he knows his
services ended in the same year of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at York, and he relies on
calculating men of learning for the dates he being wholly illiterate, he hereby respectfully
submits to the war department of war to fairly adjust this his claim and grant him a pension
proportioned to what amount of time the department of War sees he is entitled to, he not being a
Judge of true meaning of the act of Congress in every particular and whatever amount of time
they think him entitled to be granted him a pension proportional, and let the time for which he
may not be entitled be considered as relinquished (if any) that his claim be it settled at 7 or 10 or
14 months be not further delayed, as he is vastly old and infirm and in great need of some help
he positively states that there is no clergyman any place within his vicinity, nor was there any at
the time of arranging his original Declaration there being but one or 2 anywhere within his said
County at a very remote distance from applicant he has no doubt he can prove his character for
veracity and as a soldier of the revolution by Colonel Eldridge Myatt of his present
neighborhood and by his neighbors generally and by David S. Lavender Esquire said County and
by Elijah Lavender the clerk of the County court of his said County and in fact by all his intimate
acquaintance generally.
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court the day and year aforesaid
S/ Thomas S. Lea, Deputy Clerk
S/ Joseph Patton
6 February 1, 1781. http://www.myrevolutionarywar.com/battles/1781s.htm &
http://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/revolution_tarrants_tavern.html
[p 32: veteran applied on March 20, 1846 for a new certificate stating that his old one was worn
out. At this time he was living in Fentress County Tennessee.] [Veteran was pensioned at the rate of $36.38 per annum commencing March 4, 1831 for service as a private for 3 months and 20 days in the cavalry and for 6 months and 11 days in the infantry, all in the North Carolina militia.]
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